Ewwwwwwwwww

This morning, I brought in the cats' outside food and water bowls to refill them and a TICK jumped on my hand! I looked it up, it was a Lone Star Tick. I'll save you all the horror and let you decide if you want to see what it looked like...

I squished it and then picked it up with a paper towel. I think it was still alive, so I soaked the paper towel in water and threw it at the bottom of my tall kitchen trashcan. I hope it doesn't crawl out! I'm scared now. Maybe I should dig through my trash to find it and really squish it this time.